Christmas around our home

We don't do much decorating around our house for any holiday. We have small, modest home, so there isn't much space to decorate. We also don't have much space for storage, and I don't like clutter, so...

Decorations + Items already displayed = too much clutter!

Anyway, I do try to decorate for Christmas a bit. I mean, who's birthday is a bigger deal than Jesus'?! So...mostly we have nativity scenes!

This Nativity was, I believe, my Great Grandma's.
The garland is new this year, as is my sign that I scored at a yard sale!

My Grandma kept this Nativity (it lights up) in her living room year round.
Guess where it's been since she went to meet Jesus in person in March?
In my living room...and it will stay there, year round.

Lincoln and I recieved this Nativity as a wedding gift almost 7 years ago.
(What an awesome wedding gift!!)
Hunter made the angel on top a few years ago...

Here is what our fireplace looks like when you step back a bit...
Six stocking holders (but not six stockings yet...yikes!),
three Nativity scenes, and a little garland thrown in for good measure!

This is our newest addition! Our Nativity that we purchased in Ethiopia!
(It's sitting on a mat from Kenya as well!)

Yes, you counted right, that's four Nativity Scenes in my living room!

As a side note...I love receiving Christmas Cards. I think it's a lost art. I will say that I have always sent out New Years Cards, but am trying really hard to get Christmas Cards sent this year! I adore seeing everyone's family year to year, and reading about the new happenings in their lives. I think it's a wonderful time to get a quick update on those that you don't talk to regularly. I hung the garland around our bookcase this year, in hopes that we will receive lots of Christmas Cards and can hang them there for everyone to see! I remember very fondly the Christmas Card holders that we had in my home growing up and how much I loved reading everyone's cards to my parents, even as a child. Even now, I always read everyone's card to my Mom every time I'm at her house.

Merry Christmas!